The folly of little kings
On Monday, May 25th, 2020, Cuba’s new president, Miguel Diaz-Canél, involuntarily found himself in the spotlight. Diaz-Canél had become the Cuban head of state…
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On Monday, May 25th, 2020, Cuba’s new president, Miguel Diaz-Canél, involuntarily found himself in the spotlight. Diaz-Canél had become the Cuban head of state…
Read MoreThis year, once again, the national capital of India is witnessing a farmer’s protest, amidst state repression, media blackout and disinformation. We are witnessing…
Read MoreBetween February 8 and 9, 2024, two fleets arrived in Brindisi, a port city in the southern Italian region of Puglia. The first came…
Read MoreOver 150 organisations called for citizens to mobilise against the new, controversial French immigration law deemed ‘an ideological victory’ by far-right leader Le Pen….
Read MoreIn 1964, when describing the threshold for obscenity in Jacobellis v. Ohio, the US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said that while he couldn’t…
Read More Allegra Lab · From Despair To Where? Anthropology, critique, political practice and the case for radical optimism TRANSCRIPT OF THE AUDIO ESSAY…
Read MoreIn search of urban heresies Wherever I glanced around Solomon’s office, I saw, plastered on the walls and spread over the desk, maps, reports,…
Read MoreI grew up in an area surrounded by miombo woodland, located approximately 200 kilometres southeast of Lake Tanganyika. In the early 1990s, when I…
Read MoreI am going to start with breathing what I push out of me and what you push out of you and what we push…
Read MoreThe American Anthropological Association (AAA) is awaiting the results of a membership vote on a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions submitted in response…
Read MoreWe have been fighting to make it to the summer break and, look, there it is, the summer holidays are within reach! Allegra has…
Read MoreOn April 20th, 2023, SpaceX attempted the first integrated flight of its biggest rocket called Starship. SpaceX is a private American aerospace company that…
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